Throught his painting , Hugues Gillet has endeavoured to give a material, objectivited and externalized form to his personal world. Half-animal, half-vegetable representations dwell in luxuriant landscapes or on smooth horizons in hues of scorched earth, like nightmares revealed on canvas.
Then, he couples impassive, hieratic human forms with vegetable and mineral kingdoms to give form to terrible visions, to revisit ancient myths and legends or to bear witness to the contemporary world and current events.
No matter how disturbing these hybridizations may appear they are familiar, as they stem from a long tradition of representing the surreal and the supernatural. From painting to painting they reveal the various stages of the artist's metaphysical quest and his distinctive poetry.
In a classic and figurative vein , Hugues Gillet, constant and perfectionist, offers whoever may wish to see, one of the "Possible Worlds" Paul Klee spoke of.
Adéhoum Arbane.
Then, he couples impassive, hieratic human forms with vegetable and mineral kingdoms to give form to terrible visions, to revisit ancient myths and legends or to bear witness to the contemporary world and current events.
No matter how disturbing these hybridizations may appear they are familiar, as they stem from a long tradition of representing the surreal and the supernatural. From painting to painting they reveal the various stages of the artist's metaphysical quest and his distinctive poetry.
In a classic and figurative vein , Hugues Gillet, constant and perfectionist, offers whoever may wish to see, one of the "Possible Worlds" Paul Klee spoke of.
Adéhoum Arbane.
la plume d'Eros
